Amiga eBookman Sources Interpreters supplied as source distributions; potentially useful for porting to yet more platforms. Ports of multiplatform interpreters are omitted from this list - you'll find them under the appropriate platform heading.
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Apple II
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BeOS
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GEM
Mac OS
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Oric
OS/2
RISC OS
Spectrum
Unix
Windows
EPOC
Gameboy
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Nokia
PalmOS
Psion
TI
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Interpreter sources
RISC OS Zip 2000 source (Version 1.41 / 011121) Kevin Bracey
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Complete V1-V8 support, Blorb sound, graphics and music; Quetzal savefiles. Complies with Standard 1.0. The source is not portable to other systems in its entirety, but as a state-of-the-art interpreter many subsystems may be of interest.
Zoom source (home page) (Version 1.0.1 / 021102) Andrew Hunter
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V3-V8 support; Blorb graphics, Unicode support. Complies with Standard 1.1 (draft 6 or later).
Unix Frotz (Version 2.43 / 021027) Stefan Jokisch, ported by Galen Hazelwood and David Griffith
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V1-V8 support, Infocom-format sound, no graphics; Quetzal savefiles. Complies with Standard 1.0.
Dumb Frotz (Version 2.32 / Release 1 / 980708) Stefan Jokisch, ported by Alembic Petrofsky
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Frotz with only a standard C library and dumb terminal. Complies with Standard 1.0.
DOS Frotz source (Version 2.40 / 001108) Stefan Jokisch, ported by Jim Dunleavy
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V1-V8 support, Infocom-format sound and graphics, Quetzal savefiles. Complies with Standard 1.0.
Nitfol source (tar/gzip) (Version 0.5 / 991025) Evin Robertson
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V1-V8 support (partial V6). Support for Blorb sound and music, depending on capabilities of Glk library; no graphics; Quetzal savefiles.
Nitfol patches (2003) Simon Baldwin
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Patches for Nitfol 0.5 to fix a crash, run V2 games, display accented characters, remove unwanted flickering in XGlk-built nitfol, and fix undo/redo
Nitfol source (zip) (Version 0.5 / 991025) Evin Robertson
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V1-V8 support (partial V6). Support for Blorb sound and music, depending on capabilities of Glk library; no graphics; Quetzal savefiles.
Zeal source (Version 1.1 / 000422) Jeremy Condit
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Source for a Glk-based interpreter providing V1-V5, V7 and V8 support and Quetzal savefiles.
ZXZVM source (Version 1.10 / 990712) John Elliott
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Z80 assembly source for ZXZVM.
XZip source (home page) (Version 1.8.2 / 001020) Mark Howell and Andrew Plotkin
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X Window interpreter based on ZIP 2.0.7. V1-V5 and V8 support, Quetzal savefiles.
Red Hat Linux XZip source package (Version 1.8.2 / 010108) Andrew Plotkin, packaged by Nils Barth
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RPM source package for Red Hat Linux.
MaxZip source (Version 1.7.8 / 001020) Mark Howell and Andrew Plotkin
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V1-V5 and V8 support for Macs with System 7 or later, based on ZIP 2.0.7.
GlkZip source (Version 0.1 / 990617) Daniel Schleper
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Port of XZip 1.8.1 to Glk.
JZIP source (Version 2.1 / 001010) Mark Howell and John Holder
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V1-V5 and V8 support, Quetzal savefiles. Complies with Standard 0.2.
ZIP source (Version 2.0 / 931124) Mark Howell
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V1-V5 support.
ZIP source for Borland C++ (Version 2.0 / 951529) Mark Howell, patched by Jesse Thilo
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Zip source modified to compile under Borland C++
ZIP source patches for Linux (941005) Sander van Malssen
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Patches to ZIP source code for Linux and other non-BSD Unix variants.
ZIP bugs and missing features (Version 3 / 960112) Stefan Yokish
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Documentation of known ZIP bugs and missing features
Mac OS macZeX source (Version 1.1 / 941102) Mark Howell and Greg Ewing
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V1-V5 support. Proprietary enhanced formatting features.
ZIPDebug (940519) Frank Lancaster
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V1-V5 support. A combined command-line interpreter and interactive Z-machine-level debugger.
ITF interpreter source (Version 4.02 beta / 931130) InfoTaskForce
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C source code of the last InfoTaskForce interpreter. One of the trail-blazing interpreters, but now only of historical interest.
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